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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM
Subject: re: The Angry Rich
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM
Subject: re: The Angry Rich
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously said "I like paying taxes; with them, I buy civilization". Alas, his level of mature responsibility has never been common. A generation of brats now hold the levers of wealth and power in this country and seem as eager to sequester the nation's wealth in their private bank accounts any swaggering third-world dictator. No one knows how to raise up an electorate as wise as justice Holmes. We do however know how to empower these brats. As long our representatives in congress spend every day courting donors, they will socialize with donors and they will represent donors. Only when their campaigns are financed with federal tax money will they be free to represent the electorate.
Barry Levine
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